Wednesday, November 7, 2007

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (November 7,2007) – Two Prosecution witnesses testifying before the Bosnian State Court at the trial of Serbian war criminals Mirko Todorovic and Milos Radic have spoken of the events of May 20, 1992 - and the family members they lost on that day.

Serbian war criminals Mirko Todorovic and Milos Radic are believed to be responsible for the attack on 14 Bosnian civilians in the Bosnian village of Borkovac, Bratunac municipality.

After being captured and tortured, the Bosnian civilians were taken by the genocidal Serbian aggressor to a nearby brook and murdered.

A former Bratunac resident recalled the agony he went through when he learned that his daughter had been raped and murdered by the genocidal Serbian aggressor in Borkovac.

Hamed Ramic returned to Bosnia from Libya in January 1993. He said that, upon his return, he met his wife in Tuzla, who informed him that their daughter Hamedina had been raped and murdered by the genocidal Serbian aggressor.

"We could not say a word and we looked at each other for a long time. It was hard. When we regained our strength, we started talking about the details," said Ramic, adding that he got information about his daughter's death from his wife and from his cousin Hamed Alic (a previous Prosecution witness), who survived the killings in Borkovac.

The witness said that the two of them told him that Serbian war criminals Mirko Todorovic, Milos Radic, Novak Stjepanovic and three more unidentified Serbian aggressor's soldiers had captured a group of 14 Bosnian civilians - including his son Amer, who attended secondary school at the time - and his 22-year old daughter Hamedina.

"A group of savages took Hamedina to a nearby house. I heard that those barbarians had raped her and then took her to the brook and shot her in the head. The girl was 22 years old at the time. Mirko (Todorovic) must tell me who raped my child, who killed my child? I must know," Ramic said, adding that his son was among the survivors of the shooting.

Safa Sulejmanovic, another Prosecution witness, said she had to leave Bratunac at the beginning of 1992, when some Serbian aggressor's soldiers came and forced everybody out of their houses. When she arrived in Kladanj, she found out that her husband Fadil had been murdered by the genocidal Serbian aggressor on May 20, 1992.

The trial of Serbian war criminals Mirko Todorovic and Milos Radic is due to continue before the Bosnian State Court on November 12, when the Bosnian State Prosecutor will continue presenting evidence.